Big Bass: Learn Bass Guitar

Start bass from zero. Short lessons in tab and bass clef, a tuner, a metronome, and drum grooves to play along with. Learn the neck and read music as you go.

Learn bass guitar from zero, and learn to read the music too. Big Bass is made only for bass: short lessons, clear tab and bass clef notation, a tuner, a metronome, and drum grooves to play along with.

LEARN TO PLAY

• 5 courses and 38 step-by-step lessons for 4-string bass, plus extra lessons for 5-string, 6-string, and drop D.
• Foundations: meet the strings, one finger per fret, alternate plucking, the octave shape.
• Grooves: roots on the one, root-fifth, octave disco, walking lines.
• Slap and technique: ghost notes, hammer-ons, slides, the thumb slap, the pop, slap grooves.
• Scales: major, natural minor, minor and major pentatonic, and the blues scale.
• Every lesson shows Tab, Notes, or Both, and plays back at a steady tempo so you can hear it first.

LEARN TO READ MUSIC

• 15 lessons that start at zero: how tab works, the staff, the bass clef, line and space notes, ledger lines, note values, rests, time signatures, sharps and flats, dotted notes, and your first sight-read.
• Quizzes along the way: name the note, find it on the neck, count the beats.
• Daily read: 20 quick sight-reading questions a day. The notes you miss come back more often.
• Daily neck: 20 fretboard questions a day to learn every note on the neck.

PRACTICE TOOLS

• Tuner: a chromatic mic tuner that reads down to low B, plus reference tones.
• Metronome: 30 to 260 bpm, tap tempo, 2 to 7 beats per bar, subdivisions, and a click or a drum beat.
• Backing drums: rock, funk, and 3/4 grooves under every lesson loop.
• Neck: pick any root and one of 8 scales, see it across frets 0 to 12, tap a note to hear it, or play the whole scale.
• Jam: import songs you own from Files, slow them to 50 to 100 percent speed without changing the pitch, loop a section from A to B, and transpose up or down 6 semitones.

MADE FOR YOUR BASS

• Works with 4, 5, and 6-string basses and drop D. Lessons adapt to your strings.
• Already play? Skip ahead to the lessons you need.
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BIG BASS PRO Included without Pro: the Reading music course, Foundations, the tuner, the metronome and drums, Daily read, and the Neck. Pro unlocks Grooves, Slap and technique, Scales, Jam, and Daily neck. Choose a monthly or yearly subscription (the yearly plan starts with a 7-day trial) or a one-time lifetime purchase.

Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your account settings after purchase. Any unused part of a trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription.

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